that they create. They generally limit
access to students in the class or a set
of classes that are working together
and open up only certain activities or
products to the outside world. These
teachers build strong in-class communities and intentionally and carefully
carry that achievement over into the
online environments.
Students in these classes extend
their in-class modes of behavior to the
online learning environments. They
do not mistake these spaces as places
for social and personal interactions,
but rather see them as belonging to
the classroom and so limit their use
of them to learning activities.
In one classroom we observed,
the teacher and students used the
virtual classroom constantly. The
class website linked the students to
all the online resources they would
need: A class blog in the center of
the screen was a forum of ongoing
communication, and students could
collaborate through the site and hand
in their work there. Students knew to
go to this space to keep up with the
latest information about assignments
as well as to communicate with their
teacher and connect with one another
about class work.
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